V∴W∴ DAVID JULIAN – MUSICIAN

David Julian, Daylight’s musician of few equals is a Past Master thrice over.  He first served the lodge as Master in 1989 and then again in 2001-2002 and 2002-

2003.  In 2002 when asked to take the job of Master a third time, he agreed provided the young members found a way to rejuvenate the lodge and with the help of Anthony Monaco, Raleigh Wilson, Rob Pitre and Past Master Jay Losey, lead the way to the lodge’s current growth and success by being supportive of the young member’s different ideas and plan.

He served as the Grand Musician for Grand Lodge several times.  Prior to June 2005 the office was called Grand Organist but Brother David complained that he was not an organist but actually a musician and at Daylight’s suggestion the Grand Lodge agreed and changed the official title not only for Grand Lodge but in all Washington lodges.  He also served as Grand Bible Bearer in 1997-1998 and is one of six Daylight members who have been the Deputy of the Grand Master in District №. 5.  He served for two years from 1998-2000. 

He was born in Derry, New Hampshire February 23, 1947.  He comes from a Masonic background, his father W∴ John Julian is a Past Master of Manitou Lodge No. 68 in Colorado.  At the 1983 Installation of Officers Doric Lodge No. 92 in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood, David furnished the entertainment for a friend who had just been installed as the new Worshipful Master. When asked if he was a Mason, he explained that even though his father was a Past Master, because he worked nights he could not be one.  Wrong thing to say to a future Grand Master who promptly directed him to Daylight’s secretary and in June of 1983 his father helped raise him as a Master Mason. As a club type musician entertainer, as he has brought a more up to date, refreshingly contemporary sound to the lodge and Grand Lodge meetings.

Like many musicians he attended a college music school to study how to play ‘music’ but soon decided that doing was better than all the professor’s theories and lectures.  He felt that the real world of actual performing was by far the best teacher so he left the University of Colorado School of Music to appear in concerts and night-clubs, to produce radio and TV commercials.  Now retired from full time club work, his current occupation is rescuing computer hard drives that crash.  He now performs in a musical duo called Emmaus Road, a prison ministry under the umbrella of Prisoners for Christ.